8 posts tagged “middle east”
Living
with Cancer, Living with Islam
Today these people would be known as Muslim extremists. Back then
they were just known as Muslims.
But there's a new Gold Rush in the West
now as Western scholars, academics and politicians look around for something
that isn't there-- a way to co-exist with Islam. Except it's not a Gold Rush but
a Fool's Gold Rush, because when it comes to Islam, co-existence has never been
on the table. Islam is a religion that from its earliest days was spread by the
sword of Mohammed, and then by various Caliphs, Emirs, Sultans, assorted
warlords and rulers.
Religions that spread like that are no more
interested in achieving co-existence, than telemarketers are interested in Do
Not Call lists. It puts them out of business. Even the current boom due to
"interest in Islam" can be traced back to 19 Muslims flying several planes into
two major US cities with a death toll in the thousands. Minus the planes and
with a much higher death toll, that is generally how people get "interested" in
Islam in the first place.
When Muslim leaders talk about co-existence,
what they really mean is "Stop bombing us long enough to let us destroy
you."
This of course hasn't stopped well meaning Westerners from trying
to find ways to get along with cancer. Like living with Cancer, living with
Islam is a dead end proposition. You either go for Chemotherapy or sooner or
later you wind up lying face up on a steel table with a toe tag on your foot.
Except in this case the toe tag will be a Koran.
Like Cancer, Islam is a
devouring entity that exists to consume, leaving destruction and misery in its
wake. You cannot live with it, your choices are to either die, or force it out
of your body. The West has currently pushed Button 1 while assuming that any
moment now, the Cancer will turn moderate, and become willing to talk about how
it can be integrated with the rest of the body.
France has banned Hijabs,
Holland is looking at immigration, America has selected a leader from a Muslim
background, and Cancer is laughing its ass off at the whole spectacle. It knows
all this is nothing more than one of the Kubler-Ross stages of death, and that
the West is still stuck on Bargaining.
We'll give you complete equality,
social services, a good deal of respect, a seat at the table, the privilege to
censor anything that offends you and the right to beat and rape as many women as
you want-- so long as you agree to be our friends. That kind of thing naturally
doesn't work.
Giving people who already view you as subhuman, carte
blanche to do whatever they want, isn't going to endear them to you. Just ask
the Jews sitting in ghettos during WW2 and hoping that cooperating with the
Nazis would avoid the worst from happening. Submission to people who already
place no value on your life is death. When you do that you might as well take an
ad out in the Dhimmi Personals Section.
There is of course such a thing
as a Moderate Muslims, but moderate Muslims aren't a movement, they're just
individuals who aren't very good Muslims-- much like Jews who eat Pork or
Catholics who have abortions. There are plenty of both, particularly in well off
countries where religion isn't a big deal anymore, but self-indulgence is. By no
coincidence those are also the places you're likely to find moderate Muslims,
whose moderation consists of not being very good Muslims.
You can co-exist with Moderate Muslims because they really do
want most of the same things you do, a house in the suburbs, a steady paycheck
and Cable TV. Of course then their sons head to a Madrassa in Pakistan, and next
thing you know they're on the plane back with a box cutter.
And that's
the problem with confusing self-indulgence with moderation. The pendulum on
self-indulgence always swings back to the extreme sooner or later, just as it
did in Iran, just as it will in Egypt. Prosperity always breeds discontent and
disgust among the very sons of those who enjoy it. It certainly did in the West
producing the likes of Lenin and Ayers.
The problem is that Western
anti-materialists are socialists. Muslim anti-materialists are Muslims. And so
while Socialists and Muslims do their best to shake hands, the Muslim has a
dagger palmed in his hand. The socialist has a copy of Das Kapital in his. It
wasn't even an even match in the early 20th century. It certainly isn't an even
match now, as even a casual observer of the European scene can't help but
notice.
While we think of Muslims as a cultural problem, they think of us
as a demographic problem. We think the solution is teaching them to be moderate.
They think the solution is teaching those of us who survive to be slaves. And
guess who's currently ahead on points?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/girl-17-killed-in-iraq-for-loving-a-british-soldier-816301.html
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A 17-year-old Iraqi girl was murdered by her father in an honour killing after falling in love with a British soldier she met while working on an aid programme in Basra, it has been claimed.
Rand Abdel-Qader was stamped upon, suffocated and stabbed by her father, then given an unceremonious burial to emphasise her disgrace. Police released her father without charge two hours after his arrest.
"Not much can be done when we have an honour killing case," said Sergeant Ali Jabbar of Basra police. "You are in a Muslim society and women should live under religious laws. The father has very good contacts inside the Basra government and it wasn't hard for him to be released and what he did to be forgotten."
A total of 47 young women died in honour killings in the city last year, Basra Security Committee told an investigation into Ms Abdel-Qader's case by The Observer. This is believed to be the only case of an honour killing involving a British soldier.
The MoD had no official advice for troops on how to behave with Iraqi women. The serviceman involved would not have been told that any relationship with her could put her life at risk, the paper said.
Ms Abdel-Qader, a student of English at Basra University, had struck up a friendship with a 22-year-old British infantryman known only as Paul five months before her murder in March.
She was believed to have last seen him in January, and the pair, whose relationship was innocent, only ever met while working at the aid station. The soldier was helping deliver relief to displaced families as part of his regimental duties. Ms Abdel-Qader was a volunteer worker.
On the day her father, Abdel-Qader Ali, was told of their friendship by a friend, he accused her of having an affair with a British soldier and killed her in front of his wife, Leila Hussain, and their sons.
"I screamed and called out for her two brothers so they could get their father away from her. But when he told them the reason, instead of saving her they helped him end her life," Ms Hussain said. She then left her husband and has since divorced him. She has received threats from her husband's family and is in hiding. She now works for an organisation campaigning against honour killings.
The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens?
http://www.geocities.com/palestiniansarelies/TruthAboutPalestinians.html
Unknown to most of the world population, the origin of the
"Palestinian" Arabs' claim to the Holy Land spans a period of a meager
30 years - a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands of years of
the region's rich history.
At the beginning of the 20th century, there were practically no Arabs
in the Holy Land. When General Alenby, the commander of the British
military forces, conquered Palestine in 1917/1918, only about 5000
Arabs resided there. They did not call themselves "Palestinians". The
concept of a "Palestinian" to describe the local residents has not yet
been invented; neither was there ever in history a "Palestinian Arab"
nation. None of today's Arabs have any
ancestral relationship to the original Biblical Philistines who are now extinct.
In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, an executive member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), said in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw: "The 'Palestinian people' does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel."
Mark Twain - Samuel Clemens, the famous author of "Huckleberry Finn"
and "Tom Sawyer", took a tour of the Holy Land in 1867. This is how he
described that land: "A desolate country whose soil is rich enough but
is given over wholly to weeds. A silent, mournful expanse. We never saw
a human being on the whole route. There was hardly a tree or a shrub
anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a
worthless soil, had almost deserted
the country."
Here is a report that the Palestinian Royal Commission, created by the
British, made. It quotes an account of the conditions on the coastal
plain along the Mediterranean Sea in 1913: "The road leading from Gaza
to the north was only a summer track, suitable for transport by camels
or carts. No orange groves, orchards or vineyards were to be seen until
one reached the [Jewish] Yabna village. Houses were mud. Schools did
not exist. The western part
toward the sea was almost a desert. The villages in this area were few
and thinly populated. Many villages were deserted by their inhabitants."
The Arabs who now claim to be natives of the Holy Land have migrated to
Palestine after 1918, from neighboring Arab countries, predominantly
from areas now known as Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
and Iraq. None of these countries existed as nations prior to 1913.
They were nothing but a disorganized collection of tribes, constantly
terrorizing each other, trying to seize land from their neighbors.
Unfortunately, those Arab immigrants,
imported into the Holy Land their age-old culture of terrorizing
neighbors to seize land. Many of them were social outcasts and
criminals who could not find jobs in their own countries so they
searched for their luck elsewhere. They were accepted by the British
regime as a source of cheap labor and were allowed to settle on
unoccupied Jewish land in Palestine. Even Yassir Arafat, the leader of
the PLO, is not a native of the Holy Land. He was born in
1929 in Cairo, Egypt. He served in the Egyptian army, studied in the
University of Cairo, and lived in Cairo until 1956. He then moved to
Saudi-Arabia and founded the Al-Fatah terror organization, the
precursor to the PLO, in Kuwait in 1958, together with his
Saudi-Arabian friends.
Lewis French, the British Director of Development wrote about the Arabs
in Palestine: "We found it inhabited by fellahin (Arab farmers) who
lived in mud hovels and suffered severely from the prevalent malaria...
Large areas were uncultivated... The fellahin, if not themselves cattle
thieves, were always ready to harbor these and other criminals. The
individual plots changed hands annually. There was little public
security, and the fellahin's lot was
an alternation of pillage and blackmail by their neighbors, the bedouin (Arab nomads)."
The grandparents of the author's wife were born in the Holy Land in the 19th century. They saw with their own eyes how empty the land was at the time. They also lived through and experienced first-hand the British conquest and the Arab immigration that followed. This immigration ended in 1948 with the evacuation of the British from the land and the declaration of the state of Israel.
The real problem facing those Arabs today is not the lack of a
homeland. The historical root-cause of their problem and frustration is
the fact that the countries they came from have not agreed to accept
them back in. This is why so many of them live, up until today, in
refugee camps, in neighboring Arab countries, lacking fundamental civil
rights. In their frustration they feel that the only hope and choice
they have is to try and steal a country.
Many of the vehicles and the agricultural equipment in the Palestinian
Authority have been stolen from their Israeli neighbors. For a while,
Israel suffered the highest rate of automobile thefts in the world!
Most of these stolen vehicles were later found in towns and villages of
the Palestinian Authority. If stealing vehicles is so easy, why not try
and steal the country too?
In their propaganda, the Arabs who now call themselves "Palestinians"
consistently demand that Israel and the world recognize their pre-1948
rights. That's about 54 years ago. Mysteriously, they are never willing
to add another 54 years to their "historical" claims on the Holy Land.
They know very well that doing so will send them back to where they
came from - Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and
Iraq. Years ago, during
negotiations with the, so-called, Palestinians, someone in Israel
proposed to revise a mention of their claim to pre-1948 rights and
replace it with pre-1917. The "Palestinians" vehemently opposed. Now we
know why.
The Muslim religion was invented by Mohammed in the 7th century AD, in
Saudi Arabia. He never visited Jerusalem and the Holy Land, and did not
consider it important enough to be mentioned in the Koran even once. By
comparison, the land of the Jewish Holy Temple in Jerusalem was
purchased by King David, for the Jewish people, approximately 850 years
BCE, and the deed, the name of the previous owner, and the purchase
price were recorded in the Bible
(See Samuel II Ch. 24 and Chronicles I Ch. 21).
Some Arabs consider themselves the descendants of Abraham, the
forefather of the Jewish nation. Ironically, if not for Mohammed's
thorough study of the Bible, the Arabs would not have known of the
existence of Abraham. Mohammed studied the Bible in order to be better
equipped in his attempts to persuade the Jews to follow his newly
invented religion. When the Jews refused, he wrote the Koran - the
Muslim bible, and filled it with his own imaginary
accounts of Biblical events. He even took the liberty to change the
God-given day of rest, Saturday - the Sabbath. Since Sunday was already
taken by the Christians, he picked Friday as the next-best Muslim day
of rest.
Today the Muslim "Palestinians" claim to own Temple Mount, the site of
the Jewish Holy Temple in Jerusalem. They claim it is "their" holy
site. Does anyone in the rest of the world know which way the Muslims
in Jerusalem face when they pray? When the Muslims in Jerusalem pray in
their mosques, even in the "Al Aktza" mosque built on the edge of
Temple Mount, they actually stand with their back turned to Temple
Mount. And, when they bow down in their
prayers they show their behind to Temple Mount. How consistent is that
with considering it a holy site? Visit any mosque in Jerusalem to see
it for yourself. The fact is that Jerusalem is not mentioned even once
in the Koran, while Mecca and Medina, the only two Muslim holy cities,
are mentioned hundreds of times.
The Jewish Holy Temple stood on Temple Mount long before the Muslim religion, or any other current world religion was conceived. Even when the founders of the Christian religion walked around in the streets of ancient Jerusalem there were no mosques nor churches there - only the Jewish Holy Temple and nothing else.
Can any Muslim in the world produce any credible evidence for their connection to this holy site, other than in Mohammed's dream? Believe it or not, the one and only source for the Muslim's claim to Jerusalem and the site of the Holy Temple, is a mention in the Koran of a dream that Mohammed had about an unknown "place far away". Perhaps this "place far away" is the site of the White House in Washington DC?
There is only one possible solution to the "Palestinians" desire for a homeland. If helping them go back to where they lived 54 years ago is their own definition of justice, then helping them go back to where they lived 108 years ago is, by the same definition, a better justice - double the justice. Let's all help them get the better justice they deserve.
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that moved hearts
This Picture was taken near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, on Friday, April 6, 2001,
by Evelyn Hockstein, a Reuters photographer.
A Palestinian child was caught by Israeli policemen, and, in his fear - he
wet his pants.
Undoubtedly, this picture is very moving, and everyone can share the pain and panic of the child,
that led to such an embarrassing moment.
The Palestinians, who truly understand the power of the image, spread this picture worldwide,
through the media and e-mails, but - they did not show the other picture.
A few minutes before the above picture was taken, another Reuters photographer, Natalie Behring,
had taken the following picture -- which was not as widely distributed (please notice the child
in the center of the pic):
Well, yes, it's the same child. Only at this stage, we may assume that his pants were still dry...
Related sites:
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